In 2022, I was invited to perform as part of the Appleton festival organised by Manuel Mota and David Maranha, in Lisbon. This invitation marked the start of a unique journey, both domestic and geographical, involving concerts, residencies and sound recordings. As part of this journey, I was introduced to the Osso residence in São Gregório, in rural Portugal. I stayed there for around ten days, pretty much on my own, after a short stopover in Porto at the Sonoscopia artists' residency.

This three-week trip to Portugal was punctuated by three concerts, but above all by listening and collecting. I recorded the material of reality, in fragments: the sound of the waves of the Atlantic, voices crossed in the street, songs escaping from a park... Anonymous and fleeting sounds, imbued with presence, which become the raw materials of an interior landscape. A sensitive memory of the territory, not documentary but intuitive and vibrant.

During my residency at Osso, I improvised on the centre's piano and on a harmonium loaned by David Maranha. These instruments became the framework for a series of pieces born in the moment, woven together in solitude.

‘D'une nostalgie inconnue’, borrowed from a fragment of Pessoa, is the fruit of this journey. This album is an interior map, a wordless diary, an attempt to map the sensitive memory of places. Part imaginary travel diary, part reinvented folk, the album sketches out a poetic geography.

This album is part of a wider process I've been pursuing : a personal and poetic mapping of the places I've travelled through, through music, improvisation and collected sounds, like so many attempts to fix the evanescent, to capture the invisible. In this way, each album becomes a page from a subjective travel diary where geographical contours dissolve in favour of an emotional geography. Here, folk moves away from its traditional forms to dream itself differently: reinvented, dreamlike, imaginary, balancing between reality and dream, between listening to the world and inner resonance.